US consumer prices rose 3.7% in the year to September, above the 3.6% forecast, and Bitcoin and gold fell within minutes. The hotter reading raises the odds of another Federal Reserve rate hike, which would lift borrowing costs.
Core inflation,...
Three weeks before the midterms, just 34% of US voters approve of Donald Trump, a Financial Times (FT) poll shows.
Traders betting on that vote see Republicans losing the House. Polymarket gives Democrats a 91% chance of taking the chamber, on...
Employers have cited artificial intelligence (AI) in more than twice as many US job cuts this year as in all of 2025. Billionaire investor Mark Cuban, however, says workers are watching the wrong threat.
Cuban’s argument shifts the focus from the...
America’s employers barely hired anyone in September. They added just 29,000 jobs, less than a third of the 90,000 economists expected. Markets cheered anyway.
Bad news for job seekers became good news for Bitcoin (BTC) and gold. Both jumped within...
The United States (US) Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is set to release September Nonfarm Payrolls (NFP) data on Friday at 12:30 GMT.
With investors struggling to make up their minds about a potential Federal Reserve (Fed) interest rate hike in...
Bitcoin (BTC) and gold both dropped within minutes of Friday’s US jobs report, after August payrolls came in at nearly three times what economists expected.
The print revived bets on a September Federal Reserve rate hike. That hit the two assets...
The S&P 500 has gained 13.5% in 2026, outpacing US consumer prices, which rose 3.4% over the 12 months through July.
The trend also holds over the longer term. Historical data show that the index has outpaced US inflation in 16 of the past 20...
Ethereum developers have proposed a post-quantum-ready deposit contract that supports variable-length public keys and could phase out new BLS deposits.
The dollar fell to a 3-month low on Monday. Traders have stopped believing the Federal Reserve will raise rates again. Bitcoin (BTC), which normally thrives on a weak dollar, moved 0.7%.
Gold did far better. It has gained 9.3% in a month. Bitcoin...
Iran has denied President Donald Trump’s claim that a deal exists to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, the world’s busiest oil route. Oil jumped on the denial.
Bitcoin (BTC) barely moved. That gap says a lot about what crypto traders now choose to...
